Welcome to the thirty ninth edition of “Streets Ahead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter.If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general.

So, if you are a woman street photographer, please join our growing community… I’m sure that you will agree that we are a very enthusiastic and supportive group of women!!

Gina has once again commented on this weeks hand-picked images, it’s such a delight to read her expressive and articulate thoughts and Cara has put together a phenomenal video showcase, it will leave you breathless – thank you both so much.

We hope you enjoy this week’s showcase and many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week including:

Long shadows and classical compositional arrangement of this figure walking up this quiet street makes this such a powerful and effective capture. Louise deftly uses alternating light and dark planes to give the shot its rhythm and structure. The tranquility of this scene is echoed by the simple, clean and classical aesthetic. Lovely eye Louise.

Karen locates this great shot in a colonnade of a classical Greek building, juxtaposing the blurred, almost ghosted image of a modern woman within an antique setting. Is she a phantom of the past? The Doric columns and their cast shadows create a nice rhythmic pattern that leads the eye in the direction counter to this figure, creating a sense of visual tension to the overall composition.

This image immediately draws the viewer in, as Pamela chooses to tightly edit/compose the subjects so one has the sense as if we are eavesdropping on the secret these two ladies are sharing. The visual cues: henna on the arms and hands, and red sari worn by one of the ladies suggests we are with a bride and her friend at an Indian wedding. Is the groom a fat old oaf, or perhaps the new Raj Kapoor? Only these two know their secret. Great shot Pamela.

By Cara Gallardo Weil and Gina Costa

Cara is a Graphic Designer and amateur photographer with a passion for mobile photography. Born in Hong Kong to Filipino parents who moved there in the early 60s to work in publishing, her early life was spent in Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines. She studied graphic design in London and spent more than 20 years here before returning to Hong Kong, where she currently resides. Cara brings to her street photography a wonderful international and cultural perspective.

Currently living in Chicago, Gina Costa is a museum curator and lecturer on 20th century art and photography. She has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; The Art Institute of Chicago and has taught art history at a variety of universities. Gina is currently working on a publication and exhibition that explores the current discourse on the use of mobile technology and how it has changed the way one defines what a photograph can be.

That was cool! 😀 This is the first time an image of mine has been selected for this showcase so I’ll say it again; that was cool! Thank you so much, Gina and Cara, for selecting my image for this truly beautiful showcase.